YESTERDAY, John Galliano staged the most achingly beautiful fashion extravaganza in living memory, in Paris’ swank Polo Club – a spectacle that’s going to be difficult to top when… ...

Christian Dior Spring 2007 ... those delightful nineties shows in which Shalom Harlow and her friends used to method-model their way up and down Galliano's catwalks. And lo! There was Harlow ...

JOHN Galliano must have spent Christmas tucked away with a copy of Memoirs of a Geisha on DVD and Madame Butterfly on his iPod - unless Christian Dior paid for a first-class flight to Japan.

The fashion house Christian Dior fired its chief designer, John Galliano, yesterday for what it described as "particularly odious" remarks glorifying Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust.